Higher Ed
ANALYSIS — TRUE: Thanks to Elites, College Is Now a Costly Path to Nowhere
COLLEGE LEADES NEED TO SAY ‘NO’ TO SUCH COURSES: ‘Antisemitism on steroids’: Pro-Israel law professor rips Cornell’Gaza’ course
YOU CAN THANK THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE (I.E., THE FEDERAL AND STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS, THE SO-CALLED “ED SCHOOLS,” THE LICENSING AGENCIES, TEXTBOOK MANUFACTURERS, ETC.) FOR THIS TOTAL MELTDOWN. There is now no other choice but to ABOLISH the government schools and return to a free-market in education: U.S. math scores show ‘devastating’ decline.
The declines were “steep” and “devastating,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. While high achievers held their own, low-performing students lost the most, widening achievement gaps.
“One in five U.S. eighth graders scored below the low benchmark, meaning they lacked even basic proficiency,” Meltzer writes. That’s way up from earlier years.
The drop in science scores was less extreme, but U.S. fourth-graders now score worse in science than they did in 1995.
Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan topped the rankings. Poland, Sweden and Australia made the greatest gains, passing the U.S. “We have countries leapfrogging over us,” Carr said.
It’s not clear whether school closures, which lasted longer in the U.S. than in Europe or Asia, led to more learning loss. But one of the countries that raised achievement, Sweden, didn’t close elementary schools or mandate masks.
THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE THE INDOCTRINATION WING OF A CERTAIN POLITICAL PARTY: School Board Accused Of Illegal Election Interference After Advocating Against School Choice
TIME TO MOVE IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES AND HAVE CHILDREN: States Lower Testing Standards And Shoot Down School Choice
TOO BAD THEY CAN’T START TODAY: 10 outrageous taxpayer-funded higher ed research projects DOGE can investigate
SOME SAVORY READING: Today in the College Collapse
MAKE WORK FOR ACTIVISTS: Michigan’s Radical Faculty Program
DON’T YOU JUST LOVE THE CLOWN SHOW THAT IS THE SO-CALLED IVY LEAGUE? Yale University hosts ‘Transgiving.’
DEFINING WINNERS AND LOSERS:
A GREAT RECKONING IS COMING: Colleges in crisis thanks to high costs and intolerant extremism.
I THOUGHT CLOWN SHOWS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY: Professor praises North Korea, argues country advances socialist revolution.
DEI IS Deflating On a national level, incoming President Trump will hopefully rescind all of Joe Biden’s executive orders implementing DEI and gender theory, including Executive Order 13985, which advanced a “whole-of-government equity agenda.”
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mania is ebbing and may be on its way out.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has, over the past several years, become part of the fabric of American institutions, notably businesses and schools. In a nutshell, DEI pays no mind to quality but, instead, is a system whereby racial bean counting is the sine qua non of our culture. While this has already been a disastrous policy for all concerned, a recent study delves into the serious damage it has done.
EMPHATICALLY YES: End, Don’t Mend DEI
DOESN’G SOUND CRAZY AT ALL: Eliminating the Department of Education Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds
HOW COULD THEY LOSE WHAT THEY NEVER HAD: How Democrats Lost The Plot On Education
THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NOT FULL OF ROCKET SCIENTISTS FOR TEACHERS. This should not be surprising because the teachers are not required to have legitimate academic degrees: Mississippi teacher fired after allegedly feeding students dog treats mistaken for beef jerky